[CS-FSLUG] . Bulk filename recoding

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> Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2010 08:40:02 -0400
> From: Eduardo Sanchez <lists at sombragris.org>
> To: "A Christian virtual Free Software and Linux Users Group."
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> Subject: [CS-FSLUG] Bulk filename recoding?
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> Dear Listmembers,
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> I know the answer must be somewhere but I can't recall that and therefore I
> ask for your help.
>
> Problem is, sometimes I get non-ASCII characters in filenames; e.g.,
> "r?sum?.pdf". Especially if those filenames come from zipped or RAR'ed
> packages, trying to copy them from my ext3 filesystem to a FAT one (such as
> those of pendrives or mp3 players), the file transfer in Midnight Commander
> fails.
>
> Renaming the filenames and ensuring that all characters in the filename are
> ASCII usually solves the problem.
>
> Now, my question is: how can I do this massively? Say, I have recursive
> folders and subfolders that need to be renamed, something that would be too
> burdensome to do by hand. How can I do it?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
>
> Eduardo
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> Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2010 07:58:40 -0700
> From: sjm <sjm.mlists at gmail.com>
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> Subject: Re: [CS-FSLUG] Bulk filename recoding?
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> On 09/22/2010 05:40 AM, Eduardo Sanchez wrote:
>> Dear Listmembers,
>>
>> I know the answer must be somewhere but I can't recall that and therefore
>> I
>> ask for your help.
>>
>> Problem is, sometimes I get non-ASCII characters in filenames; e.g.,
>> "r?sum?.pdf". Especially if those filenames come from zipped or RAR'ed
>> packages, trying to copy them from my ext3 filesystem to a FAT one (such
>> as
>> those of pendrives or mp3 players), the file transfer in Midnight
>> Commander
>> fails.
>>
>> Renaming the filenames and ensuring that all characters in the filename
>> are
>> ASCII usually solves the problem.
>>
>> Now, my question is: how can I do this massively? Say, I have recursive
>> folders and subfolders that need to be renamed, something that would be
>> too
>> burdensome to do by hand. How can I do it?
>
> I assume you are on linux.  Check out the "convmv" package.  It can
> change the encodings for the filenames.  (IIRC, Windows prefers cp850 or
> ISO8859 codepages while Linux prefers utf-8.)
>
> sjm
>
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The Thunar file manager <http://thunar.xfce.org/index.html> comes with
an excellent bulk renamer with both simple and advanced
<http://thunar.xfce.org/plugins.html> ways to rename many files at
once.